Some sources cite 1784 as his date of birth.
Veteran of the War of 1812.
Friend and confidant of Gen. Andrew Jackson.
Husband of Priscilla Shelby Douglass, daughter of David and Sarah Bledsoe Shelby of Sumner County, Tenn. The couple were married in 1811 in Lebanon, Tenn., of which Col. Douglass was once mayor.
Served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee, Free and Accepted Masons for 1833.
After her death Col. Col. Douglass married 2nd Zuritha Alcorn (dau. of John & Prudence (Hall) Alcorn) on 19 Aug 1817 in Wilson Co., TN. Zuritha died 11 Feb 1820. Zuritha had a brother, James, but he died in Aug or Sep of 1834. James Alcorn left a will dated 31 Jul 1834 (WilsonCoTN Wills 1803-1917 Image 663). Col. Douglass married 3rd Jane Ann Barrow, widow of Henry Crabb, 15 Dec 1829 in Davidson Co., TN., and relocated to Vicksburg.
Business interests brought him to Shreveport, LA, where he maintained a residence for more than a decade, dividing his time between Shreveport and Vicksburg, though the U.S. Census of 1850 gives his primary residence as Shreveport. Nevertheless, Col. Douglass is usually identified historically as a Mississippian.
After he second wife's death he married Jane Crabb, widowed mother of California senator Col. Henry Crabb, the filibusterer who attempted to bring the Mexican state of Sonora into the U.S. in 1857, but was murdered with all of his officers and men by Mexican guerillas at the town of Caborca. Crabb's lietenant in the Sonora Expedition was Col. Robert Nathaniel Wood, a San Francisco area judge and Mexican War veteran who had formerly been Mayor of Shreveport, LA. Wood, a native of Natchez, Miss., had also been in the cotton business in Mississippi and north Louisiana. Wood, Crabb, and Douglass were business associates and sometime business partners, which is what had first brought Douglass to Shreveport in the early 1840s. Douglass died at his Shreveport residence and was buried at Oakland Cemetery in what was intended to be a temporary grave. However, his remains were never removed for reburial at Vicksburg and his body remains at Oakland yet, though the exact location of the grave is now uncertain.
Shreveport's Douglass Street (frequently misspelled with only a single final s), located a block east of Oakland Cemetery, is named for him and is his only permanent memorial in the city. Nearby Wood Street, a block to the southwest, is named for Mayor Wood.
Veteran of the War of 1812.
Friend and confidant of Gen. Andrew Jackson.
Husband of Priscilla Shelby Douglass, daughter of David and Sarah Bledsoe Shelby of Sumner County, Tenn. The couple were married in 1811 in Lebanon, Tenn., of which Col. Douglass was once mayor.
Served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee, Free and Accepted Masons for 1833.
After her death Col. Col. Douglass married 2nd Zuritha Alcorn (dau. of John & Prudence (Hall) Alcorn) on 19 Aug 1817 in Wilson Co., TN. Zuritha died 11 Feb 1820. Zuritha had a brother, James, but he died in Aug or Sep of 1834. James Alcorn left a will dated 31 Jul 1834 (WilsonCoTN Wills 1803-1917 Image 663). Col. Douglass married 3rd Jane Ann Barrow, widow of Henry Crabb, 15 Dec 1829 in Davidson Co., TN., and relocated to Vicksburg.
Business interests brought him to Shreveport, LA, where he maintained a residence for more than a decade, dividing his time between Shreveport and Vicksburg, though the U.S. Census of 1850 gives his primary residence as Shreveport. Nevertheless, Col. Douglass is usually identified historically as a Mississippian.
After he second wife's death he married Jane Crabb, widowed mother of California senator Col. Henry Crabb, the filibusterer who attempted to bring the Mexican state of Sonora into the U.S. in 1857, but was murdered with all of his officers and men by Mexican guerillas at the town of Caborca. Crabb's lietenant in the Sonora Expedition was Col. Robert Nathaniel Wood, a San Francisco area judge and Mexican War veteran who had formerly been Mayor of Shreveport, LA. Wood, a native of Natchez, Miss., had also been in the cotton business in Mississippi and north Louisiana. Wood, Crabb, and Douglass were business associates and sometime business partners, which is what had first brought Douglass to Shreveport in the early 1840s. Douglass died at his Shreveport residence and was buried at Oakland Cemetery in what was intended to be a temporary grave. However, his remains were never removed for reburial at Vicksburg and his body remains at Oakland yet, though the exact location of the grave is now uncertain.
Shreveport's Douglass Street (frequently misspelled with only a single final s), located a block east of Oakland Cemetery, is named for him and is his only permanent memorial in the city. Nearby Wood Street, a block to the southwest, is named for Mayor Wood.
Some sources cite 1784 as his date of birth.
Veteran of the War of 1812.
Friend and confidant of Gen. Andrew Jackson.
Husband of Priscilla Shelby Douglass, daughter of David and Sarah Bledsoe Shelby of Sumner County, Tenn. The couple were married in 1811 in Lebanon, Tenn., of which Col. Douglass was once mayor.
Served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee, Free and Accepted Masons for 1833.
After her death Col. Col. Douglass married 2nd Zuritha Alcorn (dau. of John & Prudence (Hall) Alcorn) on 19 Aug 1817 in Wilson Co., TN. Zuritha died 11 Feb 1820. Zuritha had a brother, James, but he died in Aug or Sep of 1834. James Alcorn left a will dated 31 Jul 1834 (WilsonCoTN Wills 1803-1917 Image 663). Col. Douglass married 3rd Jane Ann Barrow, widow of Henry Crabb, 15 Dec 1829 in Davidson Co., TN., and relocated to Vicksburg.
Business interests brought him to Shreveport, LA, where he maintained a residence for more than a decade, dividing his time between Shreveport and Vicksburg, though the U.S. Census of 1850 gives his primary residence as Shreveport. Nevertheless, Col. Douglass is usually identified historically as a Mississippian.
After he second wife's death he married Jane Crabb, widowed mother of California senator Col. Henry Crabb, the filibusterer who attempted to bring the Mexican state of Sonora into the U.S. in 1857, but was murdered with all of his officers and men by Mexican guerillas at the town of Caborca. Crabb's lietenant in the Sonora Expedition was Col. Robert Nathaniel Wood, a San Francisco area judge and Mexican War veteran who had formerly been Mayor of Shreveport, LA. Wood, a native of Natchez, Miss., had also been in the cotton business in Mississippi and north Louisiana. Wood, Crabb, and Douglass were business associates and sometime business partners, which is what had first brought Douglass to Shreveport in the early 1840s. Douglass died at his Shreveport residence and was buried at Oakland Cemetery in what was intended to be a temporary grave. However, his remains were never removed for reburial at Vicksburg and his body remains at Oakland yet, though the exact location of the grave is now uncertain.
Shreveport's Douglass Street (frequently misspelled with only a single final s), located a block east of Oakland Cemetery, is named for him and is his only permanent memorial in the city. Nearby Wood Street, a block to the southwest, is named for Mayor Wood.
Veteran of the War of 1812.
Friend and confidant of Gen. Andrew Jackson.
Husband of Priscilla Shelby Douglass, daughter of David and Sarah Bledsoe Shelby of Sumner County, Tenn. The couple were married in 1811 in Lebanon, Tenn., of which Col. Douglass was once mayor.
Served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee, Free and Accepted Masons for 1833.
After her death Col. Col. Douglass married 2nd Zuritha Alcorn (dau. of John & Prudence (Hall) Alcorn) on 19 Aug 1817 in Wilson Co., TN. Zuritha died 11 Feb 1820. Zuritha had a brother, James, but he died in Aug or Sep of 1834. James Alcorn left a will dated 31 Jul 1834 (WilsonCoTN Wills 1803-1917 Image 663). Col. Douglass married 3rd Jane Ann Barrow, widow of Henry Crabb, 15 Dec 1829 in Davidson Co., TN., and relocated to Vicksburg.
Business interests brought him to Shreveport, LA, where he maintained a residence for more than a decade, dividing his time between Shreveport and Vicksburg, though the U.S. Census of 1850 gives his primary residence as Shreveport. Nevertheless, Col. Douglass is usually identified historically as a Mississippian.
After he second wife's death he married Jane Crabb, widowed mother of California senator Col. Henry Crabb, the filibusterer who attempted to bring the Mexican state of Sonora into the U.S. in 1857, but was murdered with all of his officers and men by Mexican guerillas at the town of Caborca. Crabb's lietenant in the Sonora Expedition was Col. Robert Nathaniel Wood, a San Francisco area judge and Mexican War veteran who had formerly been Mayor of Shreveport, LA. Wood, a native of Natchez, Miss., had also been in the cotton business in Mississippi and north Louisiana. Wood, Crabb, and Douglass were business associates and sometime business partners, which is what had first brought Douglass to Shreveport in the early 1840s. Douglass died at his Shreveport residence and was buried at Oakland Cemetery in what was intended to be a temporary grave. However, his remains were never removed for reburial at Vicksburg and his body remains at Oakland yet, though the exact location of the grave is now uncertain.
Shreveport's Douglass Street (frequently misspelled with only a single final s), located a block east of Oakland Cemetery, is named for him and is his only permanent memorial in the city. Nearby Wood Street, a block to the southwest, is named for Mayor Wood.
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